prefigure

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɹiːfɪɡjɚ/

Verb

prefigure (prefigures, present participle prefiguring; past and past participle prefigured)

1. To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand (often used in a Biblical context).
2. To predict or foresee.

Synonyms

• presage
• portend
• forereckon
• foreshadow
• announce

Translations

• French: préfigurer

Noun

prefigure (plural prefigures)

1. That which prefigures or appears to predict; a harbinger.
   • 2005, Leerom Medovoi, Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity (page 293)

     Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.

   • 2012, C. S. Shapley, Studies in French Poetry of the Fifteenth Century (page 5)

     In his influential commentary (the Moralia) Gregory the Great interpreted the protagonist typologically as a prefigure of Christ and of the Church persecuted.

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